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March 3, 2009

Baseball Road Trip Question

Dan, an English teacher in Korea, emailed me with a question related to my 21 Ballparks post:

I was wondering if you know of any or have ever come across some kind of record for ... going to the most parks in the fewest days? I am sure a handful of lucky people have been able to see a game at every park over the course of a season (or a couple years) but I am talking about all the parks back to back to back on road-trip stadium tour.

I have no idea about this, so I'm throwing it out to everyone: Anyone hear about any marathon baseball trips (which could include minor league parks too)?

We've had a few short ones: four Yankee games in four days in 1992 (two in Boston, two in brand-new Camden Yards) and five spring training games in four days in 2003. Our 1999 and 2002 baseball trips took in five parks each, but we spread them out over 12 days each time. Impressive, maybe, but not fanatical.

Off-Topic: I'm watching the Team USA vs. Yankees exhibition game and Jeter made a play to his left and John Flaherty was talking about Jeter's excellent range. Glad I wasn't drinking anything or it'd have come out my nose.

The trip began in Seattle on June 16. From Seattle, he drove to San Francisco; Anaheim; Phoenix; Oakland; back to Los Angeles; down to San Diego; and then to Denver; Kansas City; Detroit; Toronto; Cleveland; Chicago; Minneapolis; Arlington, Texas; Houston; St. Petersburg, Florida; Miami; Atlanta; St. Louis; Cincinnati; Baltimore; Pittsburgh; Boston; the Bronx in New York; Queens in New York; Philadelphia; Washington; Chicago; and Milwaukee on July 11.

I did a stadium tour in 1994. One of the parks (Kingdome) fell apart before I got there, and I went to games at the two Bay Area stadia before I left. So, I did 25 major league and 1 minor league stadia in 75 days. Link here:http://www.baritoneconsulting.com/public_html/trip.html